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by minimaxir 3717 days ago
A side note on Google Trends: you can't use Google Trends as statistical evidence that a startup is doing better than another because there are hundreds of different reasons why people might Google a startup, and some might be more biased than others. (e.g. Googling "what the heck is Reddit" which might be less likely to happen for Facebook, yet is not fully indicative of business success/failure).

It's still fun for making silly correlations, though.

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Why not?